Everything worked OOTB, with one snag. Although initial desktop came in at supported resolution, there were two annoying problems running Opera 11 or 12. The most annoying was that flash videos would not run showing a black screen where an image should be. The second was that if more than one tab was opened, except for the tab in focus the tab bar did not display the other tabs properly and the unused portion of the tab bar displayed random black pixels rather than a uniform gray space, Running xorgorwizard and probing to 1600x900x24 solved both problems. "Report Video Graphics" now indicates that the Ati Radeon driver was being used.

Not particularly important but just to make a note of it: On my Thinkpad T42, booting frugal install of Beta6 non-pae --it doesn't support pae kernels*-- the Lucid build of Songbird installs, displays but hangs if a Shoutcast selection is made.

And before I forget: Just a word of appreciation for whatever change you made to the routine to build/display the desktop after a change in the SFSes loaded. Previously, after removing or adding an SFS, the default desktop icons would appear on reboot. Now changing SFSes does not effect the desktop display.
And, of course, thank you for precise, itself.

mikesLr

* ergo my preference for non-pae on desktop: After my customizations on desktop, I just make a copy for all the files my Thinkpad.

Figured I'd wait a few versions to see if the WiFi got corrected! Sorry to say, WiFi with rt2800usb is still NOT connecting. Hasn't worked since 5.2.60. Linksys adaptor blinks like it's searching, just not connecting!

So far everything else in beta-7 looks pretty good except... seems slower than earlier versions and still a lot of buffering at certain video sites.

Barry,
While polishing and testing the firmware pets for DGC and HSF modems, I discovered that modemprobe_erase does not perform as I intended for modprobe config files named modemx_*. They are to be removed only if an 'erase' is done when the modem selection is already cleared. That is to leave them in place during a normal "erase" of a selection to change modem selection, but provide a way to remove them (say, for a hardware reconfiguration).

They have been used to handle the special case of HSF and ALSA drivers conflicting and HSF failing to work. I now plan to use it to retain the DGC config file across an erase-and-reboot. Without the file in place, the DGC driver does not load in time to function (providing modem sounds). It loads correctly for subsequent sessions.

The problem is that modemprobe_erase limits the action to a single config file for the original purpose. Although my intent was for it to act on any linuxant-driver "modemx_" file, I never changed the script. Now I would like it to handle any such file for the DGC, HCF and HSF modems. The change does just that, but not for other cases, simply to minimize exposure to accidental use of similarly named files for other purposes.

UPDATE 9/25/2012: The fix for this is attached. A change made in wary 5.0 implies that the name "/dev/MYDEVM" is not expected. However, that name is generated upon exit from pupdial even when the value should be only "MYDEVM". The fix ensures that the expectation is met.

The best, ie easiest & most comprehensive, wi-fi utility is in PCLOS. The 2012-02 Xfce version might suit you. It's very slow as a liveCD, so recommend you install on an old HD to start with to see if you like it. Tex has made great strides since breaking away from the Mandrake fold.

The best, ie easiest & most comprehensive, wi-fi utility is in PCLOS. The 2012-02 Xfce version might suit you. It's very slow as a liveCD, so recommend you install on an old HD to start with to see if you like it. Tex has made great strides since breaking away from the Mandrake fold.
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Appreciate your come-back Sage however... I myself am NOT looking for an alternative WiFi setup for Precise! I have tons of puppy's and other distro's that work as they should.

I TEST and report on NEW developments what is NOT working properly so BK and other dev's can find and correct the problem and won't be confronted by numerous new users once it makes the final stage of development.

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3 Different Puppy Search Engineor use DogPile

The look is good too, you can get round it in seconds and find everything.

GLX gears around 160, the wheels turn, but a little jerkily at times.
(can't believe that figure really though, when the usual figure for my RV280 Radeon 9200 is around 5000 to 1000 in most puppies with the Xorg High Pet put in them).

Internet works fine. A little modprobe is what it took to find the usb modem.
Usb cards come up fine, multiple soundcards fine.
Retrovol config, change HW0 to HW1 and restart X to change cards.
I Try not to do that too much in any Puppies though! Very temperamental.
Wine loads, wineasio, Jack.
Openbox 3.5.0 fails to show up.

No yellowish/green screen (as in 3HD) when changing Xorg from 24 to 16 bit, but still can't run Lugaru, a game I use as a reference test. Takes 3 minutes to get the mouse to hit play!

Apart from the ATI 9200 problem, everything works great as far as I can test.